July 19, 2018

NEW JERSEY (FOX5NY) - Never short on ideas for things to tax, lawmakers in New Jersey are considering a tax on tap water.

The proposal is being floated by State Sen. Bob Smith D-Middlesex, who is trying to say it's not actually a tax but a 'user fee'.

So it's another tax; politicians love to claim that fees aren't taxes, and this one would only be an additional $32 or so for the "average" user. Californians had better hope that governor Moonbeam doesn't hear about this....

February 09, 2018

California Highway Patrol sergeant Dan Kyle said that officers who worked during the years before the fences were added recalled responding weekly to several fatal collisions between cars and unauthorized immigrants on the highway in San Ysidro. The sign’s image has been the source of controversy, with some seeing it as an offensive caricature of Mexican immigrants.

Well, since they're illegal aliens rather than legal immigrants, what's the problem?

Why would anyone care about the feelings of lawbreakers? Well, Democratics want the votes....

June 29, 2017

HARRISONBURG, Va. — A man paid to register Virginia voters prior to the 2016 Presidential Election will spend at least 100 days in prison for submitting the names of deceased individuals to the Registrar’s Office.

James Madison University student Andrew J. Spieles, 21, of Harrisonburg, pled guilty Monday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. As part of the plea agreement, Spieles agreed to a prison sentence of 100 to 120 days.

Spieles worked for Harrisonburg Votes when he committed the crime, according to acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle.

Harrisonburg Votes is a political organization affiliated with the Democratic Party.

What's with this nonsense? Everybody knows that voter ID disenfranchises minority voters, so it only makes sense to ensure that dead people aren't similarly disenfranchised from their right to vote Democratic. They've been doing it in Chicago for years with great success. It's like recycling, in a sense.

June 11, 2017

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Twelve employees of a Democrat-linked group focused on mobilizing black voters in Indiana are accused of submitting fake or fraudulent voter registration applications ahead of last year’s general election in order to meet quotas, according to charging documents filed Friday.

If convicted of all charges, each employee faces 2.5 years in prison. The group that employed them, Indiana Voter Registration Project, faces a $10,000 fine if convicted.

June 07, 2017

Not that it matters to me, as I have a passport and passcard, so I don't need to rely on a stupid Oregon driver's license for real identification. The nutty Democratics who've been running the state for nearly four decades have a real antipathy toward the concept, though - so they work hard to ensure that everybody can vote whether they're entitled to do so or not.

Our Democrat overlords (most of whom are from out of state, as in, they came here from back east) really hate laws and things like the oath of office. They believe that they should get to pick and choose which laws - if any - they will abide by.

So: death penalty? Nope, not enforced by the last two governors despite the fact that they swear to enforce all laws.

Sanctuary cities? You bet. Hell no, we won't cooperate with ICE. Amid much crowing and hoopla, they passed a law allowing illegal aliens to get driver's cards - which Oregon voters immediately shot down.

Claiming a budget crisis and demanding more taxes, they nonetheless push for "voter-owned elections", in which taxpayer funds are used to pay for political campaigns. Portland City Council passed that, despite being unable to repair potholes in streets. When voters got the chance to give their input via the ballot, they shot that sucker down, too. And yet, politicians are pushing for "VOE2".

Voters killed the public employee union-written Measure 97 last year, which would have imposed a tax on corporate gross receipts (not profits). We recognized that it was a sales tax on everything from food to medicine to energy and more. Guess what the Democratics are now trying to impose via legislation?

With $1.5 billion more in revenue this biennium over the last biennium, they still claim that there's a $1.4 billion "budget shortfall", so they need more money.

No. What they need is to live within their means - and quit looking for ways to steal more of our money.

They're considering a bill that would "allow" Oregonians to pay an additional $20 to obtain a driver's license that complies with federal security requirements. No. Learn to adhere to our laws for a change.

That's why I renewed the passport; Oregon government simply can't be trusted. And every now and then, I have to take a flight somewhere. Or I might want to drive up into Canada. And as of next year, and Oregon driver's license won't be sufficient for either. But by golly, they're working on offering a "third gender" on Oregon driver's licenses!

May 31, 2017

And now they want to take it nationwide. Despite their claims, there is no "growing tide of voter suppression". No boys and girls, if I have to present identification to take a plane ride, to get a pass for parks admission, or to cash a check, it is not "voter suppression" to require the same at election time.

January 05, 2017

Voter fraud, an issue that Republicans have been saying is a larger problem than most think while Democrats have continued to downplay the issue is now on full display. On Friday, Connecticut state Representative Christina “Tita” Ayala, 31 years old, who represents Bridgeport was arrested on 19 counts of voter fraud. The Connecticut State Attorney’s office said that she is accused of voting in various local and state elections where she does not live.

But everybody knows this doesn't happen! Democratic keep telling you that you're an idiot if you believe that. Oh, by the way, the Russians stole the election.

January 01, 2017

The loony leader of Idaho's Democrats is running for chair of the DNC, and there's a chance that she might get it! Here's what she "thinks":

“One of the big issues that I talk about is we have to figure out how to run elections when we have the opposite political party that’s really throwing the rules out the window. They’re disenfranchising voters by trying to keep them from polling places and make voting harder, they’re using fake news, Russians hacked our election — I mean, the issues that we had in this election are not the issues of yesteryear’s elections. We have seen unprecedented things happen that we are going to have to figure out solutions for.”

“This is my life. I don’t have work. I am here to save democracy,” she says, without a hint of irony.

She even has that smug, self-satisfied look that so typically defines the dedicated Leftist. She'd be perfect for the job!

Yeah, the Wascally Wepublicans are "throwing out the rules" - as if Democratics have ever followed rules of any sort - and "disenfranchising" voters by insisting that they be alive and legal citizens who are entitled to vote in the first place (when Obama's DoJ discovered that the Florida Secretary of State was purging voter registrations of dead people last year, they issued an injunction and demanded that he stop). That's how Democratics interpret "rules".

"Fake News!" "Russian Hackers!"

Really, this loon hits every dog-whistle note the Democratics have been able to manufacture to date; most sane people recognize that the purveyors of "fake news" are aligned with the Democratics, and they also recognize that Russian hackers had nothing to do with the election results - had that actually been the case, Trump would have won the vote in connected California, but instead, the Occupied Territories of California and New York City went all in for Pantsuit.

One can only hope that she gets the nod to helm the DNC. If that happens, 2017 and beyond look to be tremendous for the rest of us.

Now Barry's claiming he could've walked away with a third term, had he been allowed to run. Really? When did the Constitution ever stop him?

President George Washington started the American tradition to limit the term for the executive office to two terms. Every president followed this tradition until President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selfish enough to break the tradition and run for a third term in 1940. In response, Congress and the states formalized the two-term tradition with the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in 1947 (ratified in 1951).

"Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale." Martin Jacques.

Barry doesn't realize that Pantsuit lost because middle-class Americans (what's left of us) didn't want to see a continuation of his stupid policies, and given the choice between that - under someone known to be corrupt as opposed to merely inept - they chose the lesser of two weasels.

December 11, 2016

Fake News seems to be a hot topic at present, and one laden with irony; none other than Brian Williams, who lost his well-compensated gig as a television anchor after it emerged that he had periodically enhanced the dangers he faced in the field, last week bemoaned the emergence of "fake news" despite his many contributions to the newly-discovered problem. And another frequent contributor to "fake news", who recently lost her bid for the presidency, took to Capitol Hill to denounce "fake news" as a threat to national security - although that wasn't a problem when she was "dodging live fire" in Bosnia or blaming Benghazi on an obscure Youtube video or blaming her husband's impeachment on a "vast right-wing conspiracy". The irony seems to escape them.

Now, the hot stories involve how president Trump is going to run his "reality television" show from the White House - a story which appears to be false - and that Russian hackers threw the election to Ferret-top by feeding emails to Wikileaks (which Wikileaks denies), and how the CIA has evidence of this (except as Washington Post later noted, they don't). As well, Rock-Solid Reid (a.k.a. Hairy Reed), who thankfully is outta the Senate, is now claiming that the FBI "covered up" evidence of Russian interference in the last election.

Let's get real, shall we? It would be difficult for hackers to swing an election, in view of the fact that, as in Oregon, most state election systems are air-gapped - as in, not connected to the Internet. And we actually have evidence that dead people are, in many cases, able to vote along with other supposedly ineligible voters - in California alone, it has emerged that dead people somehow voted in multiple elections - but that doesn't bother Democratics. Conspiracy theories bother them; actual voter fraud, not so much.

In response to allegations of possible voter fraud involving dead people and foreigners who are not citizens but registered to vote anyway, Ken Detzner, the Florida Secretary of State began cleaning up the voter registration lists in his state. During the process, they found 53,000 dead people that were still registered to vote throughout the state and Detzner issued instructions to have them removed from the voter rolls along with any persons identified to be non-citizens.

When the FAA approved the expansion of O'Hare Airport, Democratics were aghast because the new runway was built through a cemetery, disenfranchising hundreds of reliably Democrat voters.

But...but...Russian hackers!

It's time for them to call off the boogeyman promoters and get real. And until they clean up their act in the area of voter fraud, which has been well-documented for years, they have no business bringing in conspiracy theories.